CMIP Community Workshop 2026
9 March, 2026 @ 08:00 – 13 March, 2026 @ 17:00 Kyoto, Japan
The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will bring together a growing, and increasingly diverse, community of Earth system scientists, partners, and stakeholders. It will be an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in Earth system and coupled modelling, leverage the wealth of the CMIP6 analyses and explore the updated forcings and early results from CMIP7 simulations, including new experimental designs and MIPs. It will also highlight the expanding observation-modelling interface, address strategies for streamlining the climate information chain, and forge a vision and global partnerships to deliver sustained and high quality climate information to all users. The workshop will also provide ample opportunities for networking, collaboration, and knowledge exchange, fostering new partnerships with the CMIP community. In addition, there will be an Early-Career Scientist hackathon, designed and developed by our Fresh Eyes on CMIP community.
Full details, including venue and workshop website, are coming soon.
Workshop format and location
The Workshop will have both in-person and remote participation options to ensure inclusion and engagement while minimising our carbon footprint. In-person participation will be hosted by the Japanese SENTAN project in Kyoto, Japan. Precise venue information will be released in due course.
Workshop themes
Progress in understanding historical climate change and associated impacts
- Improvements and biases in model performance
- Characterising model behaviour
- CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework
- Use of observations and proxies for evaluating models
- Natural and anthropogenic climate forcing and attributing causes of change in the historical record
Understanding climate system responses, feedbacks and thresholds
- Patterns of sea surface temperature change
- Changing weather patterns
- Water-carbon-climate nexus
- Points of no return/ratcheting including tipping points and overshoots
- Uncertainty quantification in climate projections
- Regional applications including but not limited to Asia and North-East Pacific
- Impacts on social-ecological systems
Synthesising information across the multiverse of models
- Making data accessible for users and stakeholders
- Models at high resolution
- Emulators of CMIP models
- Applications of AI and ML in CMIP
- Evaluating risk under different storylines
Key dates
The list of dates below will be expanded as the Scientific Organising Committee confirms key events.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 25 March – 25 April 2025 | Session proposal call open |
| Early May 2025 | Session notifications |
| 14 May -13 August 2025 | Abstract submissions open |
| 18 September 2025 | Abstract decision notifications and programme overview release |
| 9 March – 13 March 2025 | CMIP Community Workshop 2026 |
Announcements
Call for Session Proposals – open until 25 April 2025
The Scientific Organising Committee seeks to co-create the workshop as a bottom-up community effort driven by scientists, practitioners and stakeholders. As a first step we are asking you to take an active part in organising the scientific programme of the workshop by proposing sessions and providing a description relevant to the workshop themes by 12:00 UTC, 25 April 2025.
Scientific Organising Committee
- Helene Hewitt (workshop co-chair; Met Office, UK)
- John Dunne (workshop co-chair; NOAA-GFDL, US)
- Julie Arblaster (Monash University, Australia)
- Tim Andrews (Met Office, UK)
- Qing Bao (IAP, China)
- Paul Durack (PCMDI/LLNL, US)
- Cheikh Modou Noreyni Fall (UCAD, Senegal)
- Sedat Gözlet (GEOMAR, Germany)
- Mujtaba Hassan (IST, Pakistan)
- Birgit Hassler (DLR, Germany)
- Saurabh Kelkar (Watershed Organization Trust, India)
- André Lanfer Marque (INPE, Brazil)
- Yiwen Li (China University of Geosciences, China)
- Fang Li (IAP, China)
- Tomoki Miyakawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Bette Otto-Bliesner (UCAR, US)
- Juliano Palacios (UBC, Spain)
- Natassa Romanou (NASA, US)
- Ankur Srivastava (IITM, India)
- Ranjini Swaminathan (University of Reading, UK)
- Maureen Wanzala (WCRP Secretariat)
Local Organising Committee
From University of Tokyo
- Tomoki Miyakawa,
- Masahiro Watanabe,
- Yukiko Imada,
- Masaki Satoh,
- Yu Kosaka
From JAMSTEC
- Michio Kawamiya,
- Hiroaki Tatebe,
- Tomohiro Hajima,
- Chihiro Kodama
From MRI
- Hideaki Kawai
From NIES
- Nagio Hirota
